May be too late for the Inactive page discussion, Windows has this concept of Standby page. It is in an intermediate stage between working set and the Free page list. It's not in a process' working set but still has the data for the process. If it's accessed, it's brought back into the work set. If the system runs out of Free pages, the Standby pages are "freed" into the Free list, becoming available to other processes.
It is like a weak reference memory page that can be brought back to life immediately but also be readied to be freed for other purposes.
Most disk cache memory pages, terminated process pages, and others are in the Standby list. They are read-only pages that can be reused or repurposed either way.
It is like a weak reference memory page that can be brought back to life immediately but also be readied to be freed for other purposes.
Most disk cache memory pages, terminated process pages, and others are in the Standby list. They are read-only pages that can be reused or repurposed either way.